The effects of climate change and sea-level rise on coastal cities present a new challenge to urban planners, one that inspires the exhibition, Rising Currents, now at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Read more

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nARCHITECTS crafted a vision for the neighborhoods on both sides of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, an area that includes parts of Brooklyn and Staten Island. The so-called “New Aqueous City” offers a paradigm for a city that can control and absorb rising seas even as it accommodates rising population. This view shows residential buildings hung from shared bridge structures, floating wetlands, and wave-absorbing public piers.

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Photographer Robert Wintner documents the exquisite beauty and biodiversity of Cuba’s coral reefs, which are largely intact thanks to stifled coastal development in the communist nation. View the gallery.

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The Warriors of Qiugang, a Yale Environment 360 video, chronicles a Chinese village’s fight against a polluting chemical plant. It was nominated for a 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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